Techonorati (2009) recently reported that the level of blogosphere remain similar to 2008 which is 133 million of blogs record indexed by Techonorati since 2002. The numbers goes up dramatically with 15% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging.
Size of the Blogosphere
Weblogs cumulative (2003-2007)
On average, how much time do you spend blogging each week?
Nowadays, people are always expressing their view of political issues through blogs. It has a significant impact on the mainstream media compared to earlier period. Previously, people only tend to share their personal experiences and inspiration to the public but not the political issues. According to Ariani (2008), personal blogs and corporate blogs seem prevalent in Europe, Aisa and Malaysia. Besides, an important trend in 2009 is that 72% of the respondents blog as a hobby (Techonorati 2009).
Which best describes your involvement with blogging?
What are the benefits of blogging?
Blogging are enhancing the communication way by leaving comments and it’s also helping pro and self-employed bloggers to generate revenue from their blog. A seller can advertise a product in order to promote to the bloggers through their blogs without paying any fees to gain revenue. In addition, blogging is also a very good channel for politician to express their political views. For example, one of the blog spots for politician in Malaysia to share their feelings with each other is through mymalaysianpolitics.blogspot.com.
Reference List
Ariani, G 2008, Global village: Blogs as current phenomenon and effects on community, viewed 13 April 2010,
http://geeta-ariani.blogspot.com/2008/04/blogs-as-current-phenomenon-effects-on.html
Technorati 2009, Technorati: State of blogosphere 2009, viewed 13 April 2010,
http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009/
Veleudos, S 2010, Internet based moms: Blogging & RSS resources, viewed 13 April 2010,
http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/blogging-rss/blog-definition.html
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